Word: lover
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, her garden at Cannes, her sunny cottage on the cliffs of Brittany were filled with other exquisite persons- savants, artists, connoisseurs of life. Madame Vervier was a powerful person, important to all who knew her, all important to more than one. If she left her husband for a lover and then had other loves, that was courageous as well as reckless. If she forfeited her position in le monde, that was her affair. Madame Vervier lived true to her lights; and they were clear, honest lights...
...behind. Known abroad as One Night Between Worlds it argues the fantastic irony of death. Through a young fraulein's dream phantasmagoria, a shadowy Stranger stalks and skulks, luring her amid exotic scenes in Peking, Bagdad, Venice on one of those baffling nightmare quests for a dead lover. Fritz Lang directed; Lil Dagover performed this vehicle for Germanic supernaturalism? now absurdly childish, now weirdly beautiful...
...Prince of Montenevoso (Gabriele d'Annunzio) was reported to be preparing a literary work, entitled The Second Lover of Lucretia Buti. This work is to be done in two volumes, and will be dedicated to the late Eleanora Duse. The same report stated that publishers have just received three volumes from the Poet entitled: The Luckless Volunteer, The Sightless Companion, The Courageous Poor Serving Maid...
...brilliance of a meteor. In 1911 he became President of the U. S. Steel Corporation- probably the greatest executive position in the indusrial world. His success is no doubt due to his thorough training as a workman. At the age of 61 he is still an ardent yachtsman and lover of outdoor life...
...student and art lover who lives at some distance from. New England it will doubtless come as a surprise to learn what a large number of interesting and important specimens of Greek sculpture may be found at the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University. The fame of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston as a repository of objects of Classical Art is widespread, not only in this country, but abroad...